'They made bets as to who would slit a man in two, or they opened up his bowels. They tore the babes from their mothers breasts by the feet and dashed their heads against the rocks... They made a gallows just high enough for the feet to nearly touch the ground, and by thirteens....in honour and reverance of our redeemer and his twelve apostles, they put wood underneath, and, with fire they burned the indians alive.....

Batholome de la Casas 1609

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Genocide, a man revered as hero and great navigator killed just under a million native indians. Commanding his troops to cut off their hands and gouge out their eyes if they failed to meet the daily gold dust quota by even the smallest margin

Living in the moment is a virtue indeed but the lessons of history are too easily forgotten when a little tough to stomach. All that is going on out there today has gone before. It seems we didn't pay attention then. Are we now? tis just my thinking....